A talk about the recent advancements of AI and how Udacity is helping students around the world learn these advancements.

1. AI and Education
Dhruv Parthasarathy
Director of ML & Self-Driving Car Program at
Udacity

2. Udacity

3. AI Today - 1 second tasks
❖ “Anything a human can do in a
second, AI can do” - Andrew Ng
❖ Deep Learning
❖ AI is outright better than a group of
humans in
❖ speech detection
❖ image classification
❖ Getting better at
❖ translation
❖ driving
❖ game playing

4. Speech
❖ Accuracy capturing Mandarin
❖ Baidu AI
❖ 3.7%
❖ Single human
❖ 9.7%
❖ Committee of humans
❖ 4.0%

5. Speech Transcription

6. Image Recognition
❖ Human accuracy: 5%
(Source: Karpathy)
❖ Latest Imagenet winner:
2.99%

7. Driving

8. Learning

9. AI & Creativity
❖ Examples of creativity:
❖ Music
❖ Art
❖ Writing
❖ Games

10. Music
❖ Which is AI, which is real?

11. Art

12. Art

13. Generating Images

14. Generating Images

15. Games + Learning
“It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play this
move,” he says. “So beautiful.”

16. AI & Education
❖ Lots to explore in modern AI and ML. How do you learn it?
❖ Traditional Options:
❖ Grad School
❖ Reading Papers
❖ Blogs + Githubs
❖ Job
❖ New Options
❖ Udacity, Coursera, General Assembly etc.

17. Udacity Nanodegrees
❖ Online Programs built with
industry where you
❖ build a portfolio of projects
❖ work with a community of
other students
❖ get career services
❖ personalized support

18. Personalized Feedback

19. Personalized Tutoring

20. Community

21. Community

22. Self-Driving Car Nanodegree
❖ 9 month program to become a
Self-Driving Car Engineer
❖ Taught by
❖ Mercedes-Benz
❖ NVIDIA
❖ Otto/Uber
❖ Over 2000 active students at
the moment

23. Projects

24. Machine Learning
Nanodegree
❖ Self-paced program covering
❖ Data Analysis and
Processing
❖ Supervised Learning
❖ Unsupervised Learning
❖ Reinforcement Learning
❖ Deep Learning

25. AI Nanodegree
❖ Created with
❖ Amazon Echo Team
❖ IBM Watson
❖ Focus
❖ Classic AI
❖ Deep Learning
❖ NLP

26. Why?
❖ People need a pathway to new skills that is
❖ accessible
❖ age
❖ income
❖ geo
❖ job focused
❖ gets you to a lifetime of learning w/ a job
❖ community focused

27. Why?
❖ Industry needs people who are
❖ job ready
❖ fast
❖ large
❖ diverse
❖ age
❖ geo
❖ income
❖ gender

28. dhruv@udacity.com
@dhruvp
Thank you!